Good enough for podiatry school ?

[fighiter14]

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Hi, I graduated from UMD last december with bachelors in biology. cGPA is a 3.0 and sGPA is a 2.95 started off bad then got over 3.5 last couple years. I scored a 19 on the DAT which i was going to apply with that but i cant anymore because the changed mcat. So i now must take the MCAT which i do not feel like i will do as well on it as the DAT. Is this good enough to get into podiatry school asuming i score slightly below on the mcat as my DAT. I also shadow a podiatrist once a week.

Thank You

 

[CardsFan92]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/official-pre-pod-what-are-my-chances-thread.970918/

 

[ArchiePod]

I don't know anything about the DAT but if you go to this link you will see the averages for accepted GPAs of all of the colleges through 2014. I've heard some schools have a 3.0 cutoff for interview for science GPA, not sure which exactly however. But your 3.5 over 2 years I think they would definitely be considered. A good MCAT score would help your odds as well. The reality for podiatry school, the way I see it is that there is basically a 60% chance of being accepted. Now every year is different but there is roughly 1000 applicants to podiatry schools every year for about 600 spots, if you apply to them all, your odds are technically 60%. But obviously GPA and MCAT are a huge weighted factor in that...

http://www.aacpm.org/html/statistics/PDFs/MatrStats/Matriculant GPA Average 2010-2014.pdf

Good luck, hope this helps. 😕